Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.